U.S. Secretary Of State Arrives In Kyrgyzstan

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday, 11 October 2005


U.S. Secretary Of State Arrives In Kyrgyzstan

Condoleezza Rice is greeted by Prime Minister Feliks Kulov upon her arrival in Bishkek today
(RFE/RL)
11 October 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Kyrgyzstan today for her first stop in a three-day tour of Central Asia.

In Bishkek, Rice is due to take part in a roundtable discussion on Kyrgyz reforms and constitutional issues before meeting with Prime Minister Feliks Kulov and President Kurmanbek Bakiev.

Rice will be in Kazakhstan tomorrow for talks with President Nursultan Nazarbaev. She has called on the Kazakh leader to ensure the country's 4 December presidential election is free and fair.
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/17a9ae41-bc7a-47c4-b460-ad991f1ef2e9.html

[saigon68]

1. She's there to scare away the VAMPIRES

WITH THIS FACIAL EXPRESSION





Like the "GHOST-BUSTERS" she always "ON CALL" for this dangerous mission.

[Judi Lynn]

7. If I'm not mistaken, that's a SNARL. Very scary. Uncalled for from someone

representing the world's most powerful country. Overkill.

[saigon68]

10. IT'S SCARY---WHATEVER IT IS !!!!

The woman could be in a Mirror factory to test the quality of the Glass

Ie

She jumps out from behind a door MUGGING with that expression

If the Mirror doesn't shatter

Its shipped to Hoboken and Poughkeepsie.

[Roland99]

2. Democracy my ass. She's following up where Rumsfeld failed.

Trying to keep U.S. military bases open in the area.

[HuffleClaw]

4. yup. i'm sure she's got a wee carrot and a big stick with her

but i doubt she'll get anywhere. so she'll leave, then label the place as some terra-sympathetic, moving backwards... you know the rest.

[Roland99]

9. Well! Looky here! Rice Reaches Agreement to Maintain Airbase in Kyrgyzstan

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/international/asia/11cnd-rice.html

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Oct. 11 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the new leaders of Kyrgyzstan today and reached agreement on long-term rights to maintain an airbase here for servicing military aircraft on missions to Afghanistan.

The United States and allied forces may continue to use the base, adjacent to the international airport, "until the situation in Afghanistan is completely stabilized," the Kyrgyz president, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev, said at a news conference this afternoon.

Last July, Kyrgyzstan, along with three other Central Asian states as well as Russia and China, issued a joint statement calling on the United States to evacuate all its bases in this region.

A short time later, the Kyrgyz defense minister told Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld that the United States could continue to use the base. But since then, Kyrgyzstan has formed a new government, and a senior State Department official said the government had waffled on a basing commitment before the agreement today.

Think Rummy might try to resign for a third time and this time it will get accepted?

[Missy M]

3. She should be worried about constitutional issues in the US...

instead of advising others. "She has called on the Kazakh leader to ensure the country's 4 December presidential election is free and fair" when we can't even ensure it in this country, does Kyrgyzstan have a Supreme Court?

[TomClash]

5. Checking on the Oil & Gas nt

[McKenzie]

6. now what would be her (real) reason for the trip?

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Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as the two most important countries -- almost but not quite superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).

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http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RUP111B.html

[salin]

8. ugh - sounds like the logic of the soviet union to have 'buffer states'

forming the "Iron Curtain" back in the cold war days.